A FORGERY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 176, 11 August 1876, Page 11

A FORGERY.

A correspondent in Canterbury has sent us a pamphlet or tract published by the " Victorian Tract Distribution Society" and headed " The Gospel in the Vatican." The Victorian Tract Distribution Society shows by this publication that it is either very ignorant or maliciously unjust. This tract contains a speech falsely attributed to Bishop Steossmayer, and untruly said to have been delivered in the Vatican Council. It has been stated a thousand times by Catholics who were present at this Council, and who took part in its proceedings, that the speech is an impudent forgery ; and Bishop Strossmater himself has publicly declared that this speech is a forgery, and that he never delivered any such speech. The statements in reference to the Popes in this forged speech are as much facts as the speech itself. They are all, almost without exception, forgeries, and have been refuted again and again by Catholic historians. But nevertheless, like this forged speech, they have been and will be again greeted as history by the enemies of the Church. Thus it is that these enemies make anti-Catholic history.